by Grant Cochrane
It’s Saturday night and I’m kicking back after a day downtown at the Superbowl festivities in Indianapolis. The city looks great, the transportation and customer service was impeccable and the zipline was amazing to watch (didn’t want to wait in line for my turn and would prefer a zipline over a rainforest in the Caribbean rather than a concrete jungle in the Midwest). Back tomorrow for the NFL Experience!
As I was surfing for articles to use in my social media, I ran across this one from Dave Logan about Tribal Leadership and Scrum (yes I believe that is the sports analogy). This is what stood out to me:
“…we should eat our own dog food. We need a venue, identification of community values, selection of a noble cause, commitment to Scrum (not “Scrum But”) and Tribal Leadership (not Tribal Leadership “But”).”
Of course you know I love this because of his referral to the Big BUT. Also because I love his analogy to dog food.
How many times do we put boundaries in place, put systems in place for success, and we’re the first to turn our nose up at our own dogfood? We have no problem making it, but we don’t really want to eat it. Either we need to make some better tasting dogfood, or we need to accept it with an ice cream scoop and gladly welcome it as our feast.
By the way, I think the people who are running all the activities at the Super Bowl in downtown Indy are doing a great job of eating their dog food!
Thanks for picking up the dog food, Lynn! As someone trained as a coach, eating our own food is important, and rare.
Thanks for the comment! I loved your analogy and it just seemed to fit! Great article by the way.